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Craig C Culver Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF SAUK PRAIRIE PARKS AND RECREATION INC | $1,125,000 |
| THRASHER OPERA HOUSE CORPORATION | $50,000 |
| ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH | $25,000 |
| GREEN LAKE ASSOCIATION INC | $25,000 |
| EAST MADISON COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INC | $10,000 |
| FIRST TEE - SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN | $10,000 |
| TELLURIAN INC | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE TRI-COUNTY AREA | $5,000 |
| ROCK COUNTY CANCER COALITION INC | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - OSHKOSH | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- FOFriends of Sauk Prairie Parks and Recreation Inc3× · 2020–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +475% · 55% of their budget
- EMEAST MADISON COMMUNITY CENTER INC4× · 2021–2025 · $70k · revenue +17%
- GLGREEN LAKE ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +51%
Funded once
THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue +29%- WHWISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +314%
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INCone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -43%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.
We will stirve to make a significant difference in improving the quality of life of our members and the communities we serve by providing affordable access to credit and financial services.
To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is CHAMPIONS4KIDS Inc and the most unlike its peers is Green Lake Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Friends of Sauk Prairie Parks and Recreation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds EAST MADISON COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAUK PRAIRIE HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds SAUK PRAIRIE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds THRASHER OPERA HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LA CROSSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREEN LAKE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPIONS4KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DEVILS LAKE STATE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TELLURIAN INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCK COUNTY CANCER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE TRI-COUNTY AREA ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC AREA FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Craig C Culver Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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